NATURE AND THE CAMERA 



CHAPTER I 



PHOTOGRAPHIC OUTFIT AND MANIPULATIONS 



PART I 



APPARATUS 



As the outfit necessary for the thoroughly equipped 

 nature photographer is of great importance, the reader 

 must pardon what may appear to him to be an un- 

 necessary amount of detail, and also excuse any 

 statements that conflict with his ideas. Each man 

 sees things in a different way, and I simply give my 

 opinions, which, though based on a fair amount of 

 experience, are not supposed to be final. To influ- 

 ence a man in the choice of cameras or developers 

 or plates would be almost, if not quite, as absurd as 

 trying to tell a man which gun to use. It is not for 

 the advanced student in nature photography that this 

 chapter is written, but for the tyro, who, in beginning 

 the work of photographing things natural, runs up 



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